DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z May 29, 2007

Southeastern US:
An extensive region of smoke can still be seen this morning originating
from the large ongoing fires in southeastern Georgia.  The thickest smoke
stretches across southern Georgia.  The smoke then moves farther east
into most of Alabama and northern/central parts of eastern Mississippi.
The density of this smoke is light.  The smoke moves north into
western/central Tennessee and across most of Missouri and Illinois and
back east into Ohio, northern Kentucky and West Virginia.  This region of
thinner smoke becomes a little harder to see in GOES imagery.  The smoke
then seems to be a little more dense as it moves farther east into most
parts of Virginia/Maryland and northern North Carolina before moving
across the Eastern Shore and into the Atlantic Ocean.
Florida:
A fire in northeast Glades county and the northern side of Lake Okeechobee
is producing a very narrow moderate plume of smoke moving west into
Highlands and DeSoto counties.

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.